Big (Campus) Deals In Biofuels
Researchers and policy makers agree that corn kernels alone will not help slake the growing appetite in America and throughout the world for energy. Scientists also concur that the promise of "biorenewable energy" can be fully harvested only if they can figure out how to wring cheap fuel from the stalks and leaves of corn and other plants, and not just from the energy-rich seeds.
Scientists in academe and in industry are beginning to do just that. American universities, especially a handful of land-grant institutions in the Midwest, will play a major role in determining whether those efforts succeed.
"This train is moving very, very fast, not just at Iowa State but across our entire country," said Gregory L. Geoffroy, the university's president, at a recent town meeting on the campus. "Part of the problem is to keep up with it and not do damage along the way that creates long-term problems."
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